Richard Dolan's Breakaway Civilization and The Secret Space Program - Who is Responsible?

Richard Dolan's Breakaway Civilization and The Secret Space Program - Who is Responsible?

By Sean Casteel - 6 months 3 weeks ago

Here is a puzzling aspect of UFOlogy all but one of the “heavy hitters” in the field refuse to go anywhere near due to the potential “sneer factor."

IS A COVERT BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION RESPONSIBLE FOR A SECRET INVISIBLE SPACE PROGRAM?

DID THE NAZIS LAND ON THE MOON AND MARS DURING THE FINAL DAYS OF WORLD WAR II?

HAVE ASTRONAUTS PLANTED THE MASONIC FLAG ON BOTH INTERPLANETARY BODIES?

ARE THE BOOMERANG AND TRIANGULAR UFOS OBSERVED WORLDWIDE PART OF A GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM, OFFERING EVIDENCE THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS CAPABLE OF TAKING OVER OUR SKY?

WAS THE LATE SUPER SCIENTIST NIKOLA TESLA INVOLVED IN THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SECRET SPACE PROGRAM?

It is evident that our own space agency, NASA, or some agency from another earthly country, seems to be wandering around up on the Lunar as well as the Martian surfaces. And furthermore, they seem to be most vigorous in their ongoing efforts, which our government and military are keeping as hush-hush as they possibly can, though to many the proverbial cat has escaped from the bag.

Researcher and long time publisher Timothy Green Beckley of Global Communications published a new book this year called “The Secret Space Program: Who Is Responsible?” that covers many aspects of a topic that just gets increasingly hotter all the time. We have recently witnessed the successful landing of the Curiosity space probe on Mars and await any relevant information it may offer on the possibility of life on the Red Planet, even if it be but a few struggling microbes. Which still begs the question, if proof of some alien life form was found there, what form would the inevitable cover-up take? Could we trust any leaks that told us something intelligent had, at least in ancient times, taken up residency there?

This is the kind of murky area where one turns to an expert for guidance and in this case, we spoke to world-renowned investigator, author and frequent media guest Richard Dolan.

Richard Dolan is one of the most respected figures in the UFO community. In a field crowded by overzealous believers and fringe “contactees,” Dolan has firmly established a reputation as a researcher and author who relies primarily on public and proven sources, or at least sources whose background can be verified in real-world terms. He has written two very influential books on the government cover-up of the UFO phenomenon, “UFOs and the National Security State,” Volumes One and Two, that provide thorough research into the history of the clandestine, black budget response of the US military and intelligence community to the alien presence.

WHY BELIEVE IN A SECRET SPACE PROGRAM?

Photo left:  Richard Dolan and astronaut Edgar Mitchell.

Dolan answered that question by saying there are a couple of reasons.

“First,” he said, “I think that there are a number of anomalous events we know have occurred in Earth orbit and beyond Earth orbit. Those alone are not proof of a secret space program, but I’ll go over why I think this is important evidence. We’ve got 40 years of events recorded by US and Soviet astronauts of objects in orbit that appear to be not our own and that seemed to move intelligently. We’ve got them going back to the 1960s, and there are some very excellent Soviet cosmonaut reports from the 1980s. We have the evidence of what’s known as DSP satellites – that’s Defense Support Program satellites. These are a series of geosynchronous satellites in Earth orbit that have a long record of tracking ‘fast-walkers’ in space. That is, objects that are like a space UFO.

“From the 1973 period up to 1991,” he continued, “there were, if I’m not mistaken, 281 such anomalous events recorded by the DSP satellites. Now, I’m not saying that every one of these recorded anomalous events are ET craft. But a number of them are really bizarre. For example, one that took place around 1984, recorded by satellite, showed an object that approached it to within a certain very close distance and then moved away. In fact, it approached from a point in deep space and then moved on."

We have this information, Dolan said, through almost an accident. A friend of Dolan’s who worked for many years at an aerospace company received mistakenly, but not illegally, a printout of some DSP “fast-walker” events.

“My point is simply this: you’ve got those events and quite a few others that are intriguing, which tells me there is something going on in Earth’s orbit that’s not being officially explained. It would seem to me very logical that just as there would be a covert monitoring of the UFO phenomenon within Earth’s atmosphere and on the ground and so forth, if there are anomalous activities going on in space, then clearly you would want an agency to monitor that as well, to deal with it. And that would necessitate the creation of a very clandestine component to the US space program."

Secondly, Dolan pointed to the fact that there has also been a good history, although not an “airtight” history, of leaks from within the military world. One former Air Force NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer) stated that he had the opportunity to review NASA images of the far side of the moon, images that, Dolan said, are normally airbrushed to conceal artificial structures not deemed suitable for release to the public.

“You get the claim quite a few times,” Dolan said, “of NASA airbrushing and doctoring their moon photographs. Again, these are claims. But I look at a number of these claims and they strike me as sincere individuals and, frankly, I have no reason to doubt what they’re saying. There have been at least three or four specific individuals who made these claims about NASA airbrushing their images. So that makes me think that there’s more funny business going on. They’re hiding something important about space."

Another of Dolan’s sources told Dolan that he had been assigned to train remote viewers at Fort Meade, Maryland, to scan the dark side of the moon, presumably looking for evidence of an alien presence there. Dolan says he feels that the US military must have had a good reason for pursuing that line of investigation and that there are capabilities vis-à-vis space that our military has which they’re not telling to the rest of us.

WHAT ABOUT MARS?

“My own thoughts on Mars are this,” Dolan began. “I have become persuaded over the years that there are things on Mars that seem anomalous to me, that do seem artificial. I will go that far. There are claims by people who are alleged insiders who have gone to Mars and so forth, and I do not credit these claims. Until they’re able to prove something that actually sounds rational or is backed by evidence, I can’t take it seriously.

“Having said that, though,” he continued, “look, it makes perfect sense to me, when you look at the history of apparent UFO crashes and recoveries, and there are a number I think there are good cases for, you have to assume that the national security apparatus isn’t going to just be sitting on their hands looking at this technology forever. Of course they’re going to try to study it and obviously to replicate it. How could they not?"

So that allows 40 to 50 years, according to Dolan, with a lot of black budget money and a lot of secrecy, in which a classified reverse-engineering group could work.

“And if you’ve had any level of success with it,” Dolan went on, “it’s not something you can share with the world. Yet it would be something that would come in very handy for covert missions beyond Earth’s orbit, i.e., a secret space program."

Dolan says he has spoken to people he considers credible who affirm there is a secret program connected with the moon. Concerning Mars, he says he’s never gotten anything that could allow him to say confidently one way or the other, but, he said, he would not be shocked to learn that we had traveled to Mars as a result of recovered alien technology.

“Every conclusion in science,” he added, “is provisional and contingent on more information coming your way."

THE BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION

“One of the ideas I’ve been kicking around for the last few years,” Dolan said, “is that of a ‘breakaway civilization.’ I think that this is something that is real. Now, my theory of it is that it originated really in post-World War II society, but there’s nothing preventing such a thing from having happened earlier. The basic idea of the ‘breakaway civilization’ is simply that you have a secret group, a classified group of people, with access to radically advanced technology, radically advanced science, and they just don’t share it with the rest of the world. One scientific breakthrough leads to another, and that leads to another and so on. So the next thing you know, you’ve got a separate group of humanity that is vastly far beyond the rest of the world."

Dolan said this isn’t necessarily a farfetched notion.

“In our own official world history,” he explained, “you go back 200 years and compare levels of technology from Europe to, say, Central Africa, and you’re talking about two vastly different ways of understanding the world. So really, what is the difficulty in understanding that a classified, secret scientific community would make radical breakthroughs that they wouldn’t share? I don’t think it’s outrageous, and I do think this has happened since World War II. Now, one of the breakthroughs they’ve made is in what we would call ‘antigravity technology.’ Could this have happened in the 19th century? I don’t think that it’s impossible in theory.

“I have speculated privately many times,” he said, “whether there has been a secret breakaway group going back to ancient times. When you look at some of the really puzzling mysteries of our ancient world, whether it’s the Great Pyramid of Giza or Machu Pichu, there are elements of those and other architectural sites that have been left behind that to me at least don’t make a whole lot of sense in the context of human society as it then was supposed to have existed. The Great Pyramid doesn’t make sense to me in terms of 2,500 years ago ancient Egyptian culture. I wonder if this was a human construct at the time, and what human civilization are we talking about here?

“So I leave open the possibility that some great secret would be understood by a very small, elect group of people. They would want to hide this from the rest of the world for obvious reasons – power, and just not wanting to share."

THE “SOPHISTICATED” NAZIS

Asked where the Nazis fit into this picture, Dolan replied, “When I started getting into this business about 15 years ago, I certainly had a very poor appreciation of just how sophisticated the research was in this field. I’ve definitely come to a very different opinion now.

“The Nazis were quite sophisticated,” he continued, “in their science of what we would call ‘flying saucer technology.’ We now know this. Here’s the problem, though, with that theory. I don’t think one can state the case that the Nazis explain the entire UFO phenomenon. Not even close."

Dolan said he had visited the Canadian National Archives in Ottawa to review Canadian UFO reports and came across a story written by an elderly man in the 1980s, who wrote about his experience in the Northwest Territory doing aerial mapping for the Canadian government in 1936. According to Dolan, the man had a perfect, crystal clear sighting of “the most beautiful aerial object he had ever seen.” The object was oblong, a little longer than it was wide, and he stood looking up, just amazed at what he was seeing. The object took off and within two seconds was at the horizon. It never at any point made a sound.

A typical, even classic UFO sighting, right? But Dolan’s point was more about when it occurred.

“It is true,” he said, “that in 1936 the Nazis were in power. But it’s also true that in 1936 their science in this field was still in its bare infancy, as far as anyone could tell. Let’s assume that this story is true. That tells me that in 1936 you’ve got a perfectly functioning, incredible UFO in the middle of nowhere in Northern Canada doing, well, what? What the hell was that thing doing there? Someone’s supposed to tell me that’s Nazi technology? Sorry, but no sale. I’m not buying that.

“People who argue that UFOs are strictly Nazi technology need to do a little more research into the phenomenon itself. It goes back much further than the 1930s, that’s for sure. It’s either a very, very clandestine human intelligence that exists as a longstanding secret society – of course we need to find their manufacturing plant and where the hell they’re located – or we’re dealing with nonhumans here that are interacting with Planet Earth. I actually think the latter theory is more likely, but there certainly is a clandestine human power structure. I don’t dispute that.

“But there are just too many witness claims and descriptions of nonhuman entities. I don’t believe these are all just faked or screen memories. I think people are actually seeing entities that are not human."

SO WHO IS RUNNING THE SHOW?

“I’ve tried to figure this one out myself,” Dolan said. “Who’s really running the show here? At least the human part of it. I scratch my head about that frequently. It’s certainly not the president of the United States. It’s obvious that there is a power structure behind every president. You look at every president of the last almost 50 years and really every one of them got into office because one man named David Rockefeller nodded his head and said, yes, that man’s going in.

“That’s just how it is. Rockefeller was instrumental behind Gerald Ford. He and Zbigniew Brzezinski practically literally lifted Jimmy Carter up from Georgia and plunked him in the White House. Rockefeller was very powerful and prominent in the Reagan administration. He was essentially the political grandfather of George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush was always a protégé of Kissinger, and Kissinger always worked for Rockefeller. Bill Clinton was very much desired by the Rockefeller people. Clinton attended his first Bilderberger meeting in 1991, the year before he got the Democratic nomination. No accident. And on it goes. Who’s one of Obama’s senior aides, advisors? It’s Brzezinski, the Rockefeller man.

“So all of these presidents are backed, not just by David Rockefeller, who obviously is in his mid- to late-90s now, but that clique of financial power that surrounds him. This is the locus of real power in the world today. My supposition is simply that – just as global financial interests are the dominant force behind US foreign policy and US financial policy – so too I believe they are probably the dominant players in managing UFO technology and the secret space program. I believe that, but I can’t prove it."

The most tangible thing Dolan feels he can point to is that special access programs, the primordial black budget programs, in the US, all indicate a preponderance of private power as opposed to public power.

“In other words,” he explained, “the US Department of Defense personnel do not appear to be the key players in these special access programs. Rather, it’s private contractors, like Boeing or Lockheed or General Electric and so forth. They really run the show. What we have is, at the classified level, private money that is more likely calling the shots. That’s how the government has operated for more than a century, and it makes sense to me that the UFO technology issue would become privatized at some point, and the secret, clandestine space program would also be to a large extent privatized. It certainly would help with secrecy. It’s easier to have something proprietary instead of merely classified, if you want to keep a secret, and I think a lot of this has gone into private hands."

While government institutions may still have “their fingers in the pie,” Dolan said, the technology and knowledge that’s truly important is outside the public realm and it’s outside the public purview.

DOMINATING SPACE

Is NASA part of the cover-up?

“My feeling has been,” Dolan answered, “that NASA is a front for something that’s much more profound behind the scenes. Think of it this way: the United States is never, ever going to relinquish its dominance of space as a platform of operations. After all, it is the domination of space that enables the US military to dominate theaters of war. Without dominating space, the US military honestly isn’t any better than the military of a lot of other nations. But because we dominate space with satellite technology, that is how we allow Stealth fighters and bombers to get the exact information they need that enables them to do precision targeting and bombing and so forth. The militarization of space is an absolute necessity from a national security perspective. There is nothing in the world that will ever make them voluntarily relinquish that."

In recent years, however, NASA has ended manned space missions and has announced a much more stripped down future agenda.

“That’s going to be a completely separate development from the clandestine military component of space,” Dolan said. “So, on that basis alone, I think it’s an obvious given that we have a secret space program. That doesn’t have to include a connection to the UFO/ET phenomenon. But I think it does simply because I’m quite satisfied that there IS a UFO/ET phenomenon and that some of it exists in Earth orbit."

RESPONDING TO THE ALIEN PRESENCE

Given that a secret space program exists, what would be its ultimate goal?

“My feeling,” Dolan replied, “would be that it’s a separate thing altogether from basic neo-geopolitical maneuvering. What you would use a secret space program for is to deal with these ‘others,’ as I call them, these other beings, one way or another."

Dolan offered the following story to make his point about keeping certain technology secret: “Back in 1986, when the United States bombed the nation of Libya, is very instructive. Because at that time, the US had operationally, but still secret, the F-117-A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter. Yet the Stealth Fighter was not employed in that Libyan mission. Instead, the US used the F-111. Now, the F-111 is a very fine aircraft, but the fact was that the top of the line fire aircraft was the Stealth fighter, and it wasn’t used on the Libyan mission. The question is, why not?

“The answer, we learn from the military, was simply that the F-117 classification was still secret, and the Libyan mission was not seen as a high enough priority to risk exposing that aircraft yet. The US did not want the rest of the world to know because Stealth technology was just that important. And that should tell us something: that just because you have top of the line technology out there, using it in such a way that it’s out in the open is not always a good thing. The technology can be so valuable that it’s almost counterproductive to use it because then you’re letting the rest of the world know you’ve got it.

“So too with secret space technology and the secret space program. Using flying saucers to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would be counterproductive from their point of view. That’s assuming that they want to win the wars to begin with. But once you use them in battle, you’re alerting other groups that yes, this is possible and you can build a functioning flying saucer. And maybe the US doesn’t want them to know that."

Dolan continued by saying that the capabilities of such technology would obviously be used for the highest level of classified activity that exists, and in his view that’s the ET reality.

“This technology would primarily be used for that,” he said, adding, “in all its nebulous glory. I don’t know all of the interactions that the terrestrial power structure might have with these ‘others.’ But I can imagine that there may have been interactions and that this technology would be considered very important in that regard."

WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DON’T KNOW

When asked if he had any concluding remarks, Dolan spoke about the need for proof in a field where so much must be taken on faith.

“We’re in a field,” he said, “where there are certain things we know and there are certain things we don’t know. And we always have to remember the difference.

“One thing that I can say we know,” he continued, “is that there is a genuine UFO phenomenon and that this phenomenon has engaged with the United States military for many years. We KNOW this is true because we have a certain number of released US documents that prove it. That prove we have been concerned about UFOs; that we have tried to intercept UFOs; and we have seen them – military personnel – visually and tracked them on radar. All of that and more. That is unarguable and you can take it to the bank.

“Much of the rest is guesswork. And it’s fair to guess. We have to guess. We have to create hypotheses. The only thing that I try to remind myself and others of is that when we’re creating a hypothesis, we need to distinguish that from known fact. We’ve got to be careful how we handle our evidence. I speculate as much as anyone at this point in the game. I’m very happy to speculate. I just want to make it clear to people who read what I have to say or listen to me, that when I come to a conclusion, A, it’s always a provisional conclusion, and B, it’s always based on what I consider to be evidence."

Dolan said he wasn’t totally happy to use secret, inside sources in his work because it put people in the position of having to choose whether to trust him or not based on the claims of a source he could not bring before the public. It’s much better to work efficiently from public, certified sources and carefully assemble one’s hypothesis on that basis.

“We’re in deep waters,” Dolan said. “It’s very easy to lose our footing. It’s very easy to drown. You’ve got to be careful."

Photo left: Rocketry expert Jack Parsons was involved in weird occult rituals tied in with the space program.

This excerpt from “The Secret Space Program: Who Is Responsible?” offers but a foretaste of what the book contains. There is more from the articulate Richard Dolan as well as chapters on occultist Jack Parsons, the follower of Aleister Crowley who designed the rocket fuel that took us to the moon; the story of Gary McKinnon, who hacked into NASA’s computer system and found evidence of alien involvement; and traces of a secret alien presence on the moon and Mars, plus much, much more. As a bonus, the complete text of an earlier book called “Journey To Mars By Nikola Tesla,” which tells the story of a possible late 19th century secret society (alluded to by Richard Dolan in this article) called the Aero Club that may have harnessed Tesla’s genius to create a space-faring ship and made the manned journey to Mars more than a century ahead of our own Curiosity space probe. The possibilities are endless, and so are the tantalizing entertainments offered by this two-books-in-one offering from Tim Beckley’s crazy UFO/Alternative “empire,” Global Communications.

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Unusual Helicopter Activity, by Kay Wilson and Elsie Conner

Unusual Helicopter Activity, by Kay Wilson and Elsie Conner

Unusual Helicopter Activity

By Kay Wilson and Elsie Conner

Introduction by Kay Wilson

This article is based on several emails I received from Elsie from April 23rd through May of 2008. As you will see, Elsie was able to take some very good photographs of a helicopter that appeared to be following her and possibly conducting some type of surveillance activities. This unusual type of helicopter activity has been reported by abductees for decades. (1) The weekend I uploaded my new e-book to my Web site, my husband and I watched, in amazement, as three Chinook helicopters made three, low, circular passes over our house and then flew away in formation.

What follows is Elsie's description of what happened to her over a period of several days. I have deleted specific names and locations in order to protect Elsie's privacy.

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Elsie's Experience, April 22, 2008

I had a very strange afternoon yesterday and I want to send along what happened in case anything else weird happens in the next couple of days. My husband left today for a business trip and he won't be back until Sunday night so that means I am alone for the next five days. In the 11 years since my husband and I have lived in this area, we have never had any helicopter activity around here until the last month. Yesterday took the cake, as well as the bakery along with it. This will take some time to tell the story so I'm sorry about that.

The day started where I had to assist my mother taking her van in to the repair shop to get work done. The only other thing I had to do yesterday was to take our cat to the vet at 3:15 pm for his yearly check-up and shots. After I took my mother home, I decided to make a quick couple of stops at a shopping center near our home. It was only 1:55 pm so I thought I would have plenty of time before 3:15 pm. I got to the shopping center sometime shortly after 2 pm. My first stop was a music store to buy a piece of equipment for my guitar. It only took a few minutes. When I walked out of the store, I could hear a helicopter right overhead as I walked to my car. I thought, "No big deal - there is a major highway a couple of miles away, it is probably a traffic helicopter or something."

I drove my car over to the other side of the shopping center and ran into the hardware store to buy lemon oil. (Time to clean cabinets.) As I walked out of the store, the helicopter was right overhead, again traveling very slowly across this other section of the parking lot. I thought this was getting a little strange. I looked at it and it was very dark in appearance. I couldn't see any letters or markings on it at all. The time had to be around 2:15 pm or so. This was right in the middle of the afternoon. I was still thinking, "Ok, weird, but no big deal."

I got in my car and drove to go home. I live about 2 miles north of this shopping center. As I pulled onto "A" road to head north, I saw the helicopter across the street in front of me flying just behind the shopping mall. I thought, "Good, it is moving off."

As I was driving home, I had my window down and I could hear it behind me. I was thinking it was all a fluke and it was nothing. I thought if the thing followed me home, then I would have something. So, about five minutes later, I got home and pulled into my driveway. I got out of my car and there it was - it was coming straight towards me and to my house. It was traveling very slowly. I got back in my car and I watched it come straight to the house over the pond. (We have water around most of our house.) I thought, "What the heck?"

I ran into the house and ran upstairs to grab my camera and I started taking pictures. Over the next several minutes, I took pictures of this helicopter as it proceeded to fly over and circle my house several times. At one point, I ran out on my deck and I was taking pictures of the damn thing. I called my husband on my cell phone as I was taking pictures of it. Then it moved off in a large arc and then away from our neighborhood. By this time, I had about 20 minutes to get ready to take my cat to the vet. This entire episode took about 20 minutes from when I was at the shopping center to when the helicopter finally left my house.

I then took my cat to the vet and I took my camera with me. I was able to get right in and out from the vet and I got home somewhere before 3:30 pm. The first thing I did was to hook up my camera to the computer and download the pictures. As I was going through them, I was noticing in one of the frames, there appeared to be a possible UFO in along with the helicopter. It doesn't look like a plane or a bird. It is quite small so it is possible it is something explainable. Perhaps a camera defect or something. It looks rectangular and it appears taller than it is wide. It looks like it is very high-up.

I admit, by this time I was very jittery and I may have been seeing things that were not there. I thought it was strange. I got on the phone and called my husband. Then it happened again: The helicopter came back and started to circle the house again. I grabbed the camera from the computer and took three more pictures of it as it circled the house at least three times. My husband could hear it on the phone from his end and he said it sounded really loud to him.

I have included a word document index for the photos. I tried including some close-ups with arrows to show you what I am describing, but for whatever reason, I am having an awful time getting the pictures to attach to the document and I have to leave the house for a bit to run errands so I am in a bit of a rush. I am going to try and send all the pictures along with the index so you can at least see them. - Elsie

A Strange Phone Call

If all of this helicopter activity were not unusual enough, two days later, Elsie was checking her cell phone messages and found that she had a message from an Army Sergeant who left a recruiting message as well as a phone number where to call him back.

Elsie sent me a copy of the phone message and it began with either "Hey James" or "This is James..." The sergeant left his return phone number and after Elsie and I did a little research on the Internet, we found two very unusual things about it. The phone number is listed as a residence, however, the address given for the number is neither a residential address nor an Army Recruiting office, but rather, an Air Force Recruiting office. When Elsie looked up the address, she noticed the location was approximately 20 miles from where she lived.

This phone message may have been a wrong number, but what an unbelievable coincidence this was. I find it unusual that a recruiter would call from a residential phone; identify himself as an Army Recruiter, only to discover that it was not a residential line or an office affiliated with the Army, but rather the Air Force. How much weirdness are we to tolerate before we begin asking serious questions about what is really going on here?

Type Of Helicopter

After researching the helicopter Elsie photographed, I discovered that it is an AS355 Twinstar, a twin engine helicopter manufactured by the French company Aerospatiale/Eurocopter. Its speed is 140 knots, its range is 300 nautical miles and it seats 6 (five passengers and one crew). Various governments and their military, law enforcement agencies and radio and television companies have purchased them.

The majority of the images I was able to locate via an Internet search showed these helicopters in various paint colors depending on the company that utilizes them. It was rare to find one that wasn't painted colorfully, but I did find three images: one was matte gray (military); one was black with a brown stripe (law enforcement); and the third was navy blue (British).

It is clear that the helicopter Elsie photographed was not painted colorfully or had any overt designations on it, therefore, it is probably associated with either the military or perhaps a covert organization. The majority of the descriptions for uses of this particular type of helicopter were defined as surveillance and they are often fitted with FLIR systems. (2)

A company called Transport Canada uses these helicopters and their national headquarters is located in Ottawa, Ontario. They also have a regional office in North York, Ontario and neither of these locations are that far from the state Elsie lives in. An Operator List Search from Transport Canada listed three 'legal operators' of these helicopters in the U.S. One is located in Gardiner, NY; one is located in Mifflin, PA; and the third is located in Chester, PA. Unfortunately, this list has not been updated since 2006.

A quick map check shows there are several military bases in and around the area that Elsie lives, but, what if this helicopter and its pilot were not military? I actually put in the acronym 'CIA' in a search with this type of helicopter and found one hit that began with "...clandestine CIA extraordinary rendition flights have aircraft with 'known'....Eurocopter AS355 Twinstar...." However, when I clicked on the link, the Web page had been removed. One thing this showed, was that at least someone out there has made a connection between this type of helicopter and the CIA, so it's possible the CIA utilizes this type of helicopter as well.

Without a lot of old-fashioned foot-work traveling from base to base and airport to airport, and questioning various employees and pilots about this particular helicopter, it will be impossible to determine with 100% accuracy where it actually came from and why it apparently followed Elsie and circled her house.

There is also the unknown object that Elsie photographed. Could this have been why the helicopter was there or was it because of Elsie? Elsie was told by a photo analyst that her photographs were not clear enough to distinguish any details from. I am assuming this would be in reference to the unknown object and not the helicopter, because even I was able to find what type of chopper this is and it only took me two days. I admit that the unknown object will probably remain an 'unknown.'

There are some things we do know for certain: Elsie is an abductee and abductees, especially MILAB abductees, have been speaking out about harassment from dark, seemingly unmarked, helicopters for at least 20 years. Elsie took several very good photographs of a helicopter that was obviously following her and the pilot did not seem to care that she was photographing him/her.

The only matte gray or dark helicopter images I was able to locate were either military or related to law enforcement. Since Elsie was not breaking the law, there would be no reason for a law enforcement helicopter to be following her. In addition, if this were a law enforcement helicopter, from Elsie's photographs, an emblem and designation would have been apparent. This is clearly an unmarked helicopter and, in my opinion, probably belongs to either the military or a covert organization.

Old-Fashioned Footwork

After I sent my completed article to Elsie for her review, she informed me that two acquaintances of hers who had seen her photographs decided to pursue this investigation one step further by visiting a nearby airport and questioning some of the people who worked there. Both individuals requested that we keep their names private, but one allowed us to include the fact that they are training to become a MUFON field investigator. This is the information they sent to Elsie:

We talked to two workers in the main terminal; a man who had just come in from the tarmac and a woman behind the desk in the private air-flights area. We showed the photographs of the helicopter that you had taken with your camera and that my sister had enlarged on her computer.

The male worker pointed out that it was hard to tell what kind of helicopter it was since he couldn't see any markings on it, however, because of the search light on the bottom of the helicopter, he thought it might be the County Sheriff's helicopter.

We told both of them how low it had been flying over a residential neighborhood and they both said it must have been the Sheriff looking for someone. It was at this point when they asked where the pictures were taken and by whom, and my sister said [as a cover story] that her son took them with his cell phone.

The male worker said the only helicopters that would have clearance to fly below 500 feet would be a Sheriff's or military helicopter, or someone who was given permission by the military. He also stated that a helicopter flying this low would definitely be in trouble with the FAA. We asked where this particular Sheriff's helicopter's were kept and they said the two helicopters were housed in a hangar at this airport.

We wanted to investigate further so we drove over to what is called an aerodynamics terminal behind a rental car agency where the helicopters are kept. I went through a fenced-in area and saw a worker coming out of the hangar and asked if there were any County Sheriff's helicopter pilots around that I could talk to. He said they had just taken off in one of the helicopters.

I then asked him if he was sure both pilots took off and he said he would take me back to their office just to be sure. As I followed him to the back of the hangar where their office was, I passed the other Sheriff's helicopter. This helicopter was clearly marked with white and brown lettering and had a Sheriff's logo displayed on it.

The man knocked on the office door, but no one answered. As we walked past the helicopter on the way out, I showed him the pictures and asked him if they looked like their helicopter. He, right away said "No," as he pointed out the camera on the front of the helicopter. This camera hung down from a rod in a round casing a little larger than a bowling ball. He told me a couple of the pictures I showed him would have shown the camera. He also stated that the news helicopters also had cameras on them.

I asked him what type of helicopter this could possibly be if it wasn't a Sheriff's helicopter, a news helicopter or a private helicopter and he replied,

"Probably some kind of military helicopter." (3)

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Sample of Elsie's Photographs

This is the helicopter photographed from Elsie's bedroom.

This is the same photograph enlarged.

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This is an enlargement of a photograph taken when the helicopter was in the front of Elsie's house after it returned four days later on April 26, 2008.

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This is an enlargement of the photograph taken of the helicopter when Elsie was outside on her deck.

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The unknown object

The unknown object

Close-up of unknown object

-- Kay Wilson © 2008

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Elsie Conner's Biography

My name is Elsie. I am a married and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering. My interests are writing, reading, drawing, painting, science and nature, and I also play the guitar. I am a cat lover, but I love all kinds of animals. I hope to volunteer at a horse farm someday.

The alien phenomenon has deeply affected my life. The reality has been difficult to handle at times, but it has helped me to write about it and draw the things I have seen over the years. I always recommend to other abductees to keep a journal if they can. It will really help you learn about the Beings themselves, but you will also learn a lot about yourself. Keeping a journal also helps if you don't have a lot of support in terms of family or friends.

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NOTES

(1) Clarke, David and Nigel Watson. Phantom Helicopters Over Britain. FUFOR, P.O. Box 277 Mount Rainer, MD. 20712. See also Tom Adams' Mystery Helicopters. Paris, Texas, 1993.

Fowler, Raymond. The Watchers: The Secret Design Behind UFO Abduction. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Also: The Andreasson Legacy is the fifth book in Fowler's series, which began with The Andreasson Affair in 1979 and continued with The Andreasson Affair, Phase II (1982), The Watchers (1990) and The Watchers II (1995).

Hawker, Gloria Ann. Morning Glory: Diary of An Alien Abductee. P.O. Box 14779, Albuquerque, NM, 87191, 2001.

Howe, Linda-Moulton. Glimpses Of Other Realities. Volume 1: Facts and Eyewitnesses. LMH Productions, P.O. Box 538, Huntington Valley, PA, 19006, 1993.

Jordan, Debbie and Kathy Mitchell. Abducted! The Story of Intruders Continues. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994.

Keith, Jim. Black Helicopters over America: Strike-Force for the New World Order. IllumiNet Press, Lilburn, GA, 1994.

Lammer, Helmut and Marion. MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction. IllumiNet Press: Lilburn, Georgia, 1999.

Leslie, Melinda. Public lectures and Interviews. Hidden Experience and RE-ABS

Lorgen, Eve Frances. The Love Bite: Alien Interference in Human Love Relationships. Elogos & HHC Press, P.O. Box 978, Bonsall, CA, 92003, 1999.

Wilson, Kay MILABS: Project Open Mind

Sauder, Richard. Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide? Adventures Unlimited Press: One Adventure Place, Kempton, IL, 60946, 1995.

Turner, Karla, K. Into The Fringe. New York: Berkley Books, 1992, and TAKEN: Inside The Alien-Human Abduction Agenda. Roland, Arkansas: Kelt Works, 1994. Read it on-line at: http://www.whale.to/b/turner_h.html

(2) FLIR Thermal Imaging Systems www.flir.com/US/

(3) RE: Old-Fashioned Footwork: My special thanks to these two individuals for their initiative and time in investigating this incident further. You did a great job and I know you will definitely be an asset to MUFON. Good luck with your training!

For more information about Elsie Conner, please refer to her two essays Hope and Screens and her articles: A Deeper Shade Of Black and The Conscience of the Queen. Click here to see her Gallery.